Reddit has over 1,000,000,000 active users per month. Lemmy has about 50,000. The API fiasco was a big deal for lemmy, but it was not a big deal for reddit. Lemmy is a rounding error to them.
I would also bet that a lot of lemmy users still visit reddit for their niche communities. I know I do, even though I host a server for my own niche hobby, but I’m the only one who’s ever posted anything to it.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Did some people leave? Sure. Any actual significant portion? No, not even a little.
btaf45@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yes. More than a little. It was a huge event for lemmy. Did you think the entire reddit userbase was going to switch in one week? Reddit didn’t get their userbase in one week. Everything in reddit looks shittier than it was before the exodus.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 month ago
If you’d like to post evidence that contradicts my source, please do.
I was not discussing anything to do with “switching”, I was discussing users leaving Reddit.
manualoverride@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Maybe they encountered so many charming people like you on Lemmy they had to go back to Reddit in case they turned nice?
Would that mean they switched and switched back? Or left and re-joined?
cygnus@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
There’s also no correlation between creating a Lemmy account and completely quitting Reddit.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 month ago
No, but it’s a reasonable assumption that individual will be spending less time on the platform, at the very minimum.
Personally, I haven’t used Reddit on my phone since they killed third party apps, although I have used the desktop site for a few subreddits that don’t really exist here.